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This will be a hard case for Amazon and one simple reason is because it's really hard not to call your affiliates contractors when you send them 1099's each year.

Really though, I am not sure how thought out this was by NY. It's a non issue for affilates unless all or most states follow suit. Given the virtual nature of affiliate marketing, how hard would it really be for an NY affiliate to set up residence or just a mail box in a neighboring state such as NJ, CT, etc. Amazon and others would really have no way to know where they actually reside. Furthermore NY will lose state income tax revenue due to this.

My Favorite, this happens about every other time one of the numerous, no name SEO companies, that do no research call to pitch us on what we already do:
"We have a special deal with Google"
my reply:
"really? us too!" November 22, 2006

Hi Rebecca,
I feel your pain, earlier today I was looking for that same video. As you pointed out it doesn’t appear in the results, or anywhere on YouTube. After not finding it on YouTube (but finding all of those parodies) I tried this search :
http://www.google.com/search?q=lazy+sunday+vi...
If you click on the 2nd result, the YouTube link, you get this message:
"This video has been removed due to terms of use violation."
Hope this isn’t a sign of things to come, but it might be, if you click on the 1st result, nbc.com, you can find the video but with this message above it:
"Now, instead of searching the web for "borrowed" NBC highlights, you can go to the source! We've taken your viral favorites and gathered them into one convenient location. Watch. React. Tell a friend"
Wow NBC, way to take back what is yours… I find it amusing that they call them "viral favorites", as if everyone that found it is a marketer at heart and understands that as a buzz word and not a computer virus…
October 17, 2006